Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

Author: Robert William Lowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Michael Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317399099
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.

Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317398920
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1626

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Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.

Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Hawk's-Eye
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382177048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Lucy Hartley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137584653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.

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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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